Squeak Carnwath draws upon the philosophical and mundane experiences of daily life in her paintings and prints, which can be identified by lush fields of color combined with text, patterns, and identifiable images. She doesn’t plan her images in advance; instead, she uses art as a discovery process, saying that “art-making is a kind of self-making…finding out who we are, where we are, and how we are oriented in the universe.” For her, imagination is the mind’s freedom. During her two weeks in residence at Tamarind, Carnath created Reasons, an edition through which she reveals the important things in her day, prompting us to think about how ordinary, everyday objects in combination create broader significance.

Carnwath’s work has been exhibited in and acquired by major museums and galleries throughout the United States, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum of Honolulu, the John Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and several other accolades, and she has held numerous residencies across the country. Carnwath is also a co-founder of the Artists’ Legacy Foundation. 

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